Vocabulary
A word that means “happy.”
joyful, glad, content
The person who tells the story
narrator
Choose the transition word: Then you’re a victim of dust mites! _______ dust mites, bedbugs are wingless bugs that would like to live in your bed.
A Like
B But
C Then
D Yet
A Like
The people in a story are known as the
characters
The opposite of "large"
small, tiny
The main idea of a story is called the
theme
What is the complete predicate of the following sentence? The eyelash mite is a tiny organism.
is a tiny organism
A story about personal things you have experienced
narrative
A word that describes a verb
text evidence
Dust mites are harmless to most people. Some people are allergic to them.
but
hook
I stayed home from school because I caught a bug.
A a tiny creature that might bite
B a sickness
C a computer problem
D a pesky brother or sister
B a sickness
An educated guess
Inference
Tom ____________ at the crowd. They look like him, but they do not act like him.
A gazing
B gazes
C gazingly
D looking
B gazes
Where and when a story takes place
setting
Which category does the word horror belong to?
A body part
B feeling
C movie
D art
B feeling
Hints in the story that help us understand its meaning
context clues
Identify the sentence that has a verb phrase rather than a single verb.
A The cat sleeps in the window.
B The cat yawns in the window.
C The cat is sleeping in the window.
D The cat yawned in the window.
C The cat is sleeping in the window.
A text that gives you factual information
informational